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Introduction: Religion, Experience, and Narrative
Religions, 2021 At the end of his famous book Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, Gershom Scholem points to the important role stories have played in Hasidism, the latest phase in Jewish Mysticism, and he closes his lectures with the following story: When the Baal Shem ...
Ulrike Popp-Baier
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The living dead: in search of Hasidism at the Bratslaver Shtiblekh of Warsaw
East European Jewish Affairs, 2023 The Hasidic prayer rooms of the Bratslaver Hasidim of Warsaw were the site of an extensive encounter between the Hasidic group and the broader public during the interwar period.
Samuel Glauber
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Chabad in the context of the religious revival of Ukrainian Jewry
Українське Pелігієзнавство, 2008 In Ukraine, historically, there have been various religions, both national religions of peoples and world. In the Ukrainian territory, such a striking phenomenon of the Jewish religious tradition as Hasidism is emerging.
V. Androsova
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Le concept de la religiosité dans l’œuvre d’Aharon Appelfeld à travers le personnage féminin
Yod, 2009 The subject matter of the article is the concept of religiosity as figures in Appelfeld’s narration and it’s relationships with Hassidism. This question is examined mostly on the basis of three of his novels: Katerina, Flowers of Darkness and A Perfect ...
Masha Itzhaki
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Le yiddish : un passé proche et un souvenir éternel dans l’univers d’Aharon Appelfeld
Yod, 2011 The article takes a look at what we know about the role of languages in the life of Aharon Appelfeld. He heard Yiddish only in his early childhood, as a language spoken by his grandparents, but in Israel, after the war, learning Yiddish appeared to him ...
Masha Itzhaki
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The Tombs of the Righteous and Cosmic Energy in Ukraine
Etnografia Polska, 2023 Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the town of Uman (Ukraine), an important Hasidic pilgrimage centre built around the tomb of the Jewish righteous Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav, I explore the notion of energy employed by Uman’s non-Hasidic and non-Jewish
Magdalena Zatorska
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Torah Trumps Life: Reflections on Uncivil Religion and Haredi Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Religions, 2023 As if by design, crisis reveals basic structural fault lines. In the middle of the COVID-19 crisis, non-Haredi Jews expressed surprise and even outrage about the ultra-orthodox Haredi response to the pandemic.
Zachary J. Braiterman
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Gershom Scholem’s First Lectures on Hasidism
Jewish Thought, 2022 Compared to his other fields of research, Gershom Scholem’s studies of Hasidism were quite limited. In the major research plans which he developed in the 1920s and ‘30s – for example in his detailed letter to H.N.
Jonatan Meir
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Українське Pелігієзнавство, 2003 The emergence of Hasidism as a mystical form of the Jewish tradition during the eighteenth century caused organizational divisions in Judaism. This split, which swept half of the Jewish world of Central and Eastern Europe, was largely caused by the ...
V.S. Furkalo
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Divine gender transformations in Rebbe Nahman of Bratslav
Nordisk Judaistik, 2008 In several passages in the tales and teachings of Rebbe Nahman of Bratslav, the divine undergoes a process of gender transformation. “The holy one blessed be he”, becomes female, and the Shekhinah temporarily takes on a male persona. Characterizations of
Justin Lewis
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